One of the most beautiful songs ever written, hits even harder knowing that Blood on the Tracks was recorded when Bob was in the midst of a painful divorce.
@alanbrown852710 ай бұрын
Beyond the beauty of the heartfelt lyrics and the lush acoustic instrumentation, Dylan turns in one of his most impassioned vocal performances. The notion that Dylan can’t sing is ludicrous especially if you believe as I do that singing is the art of communicating the story within the song. Dylan is a master vocalist and always has been.
@gforce40639 ай бұрын
Well said
@bboyz57139 ай бұрын
very true
@bjaded18 ай бұрын
most people who think the best singers are those who just have the “golden voice” don’t realize that those singers aren’t the ones who really resonate with listeners. You dont have to have a perfect voice, most in the 60s/70s didnt..it was all emotional and the ability to communicate. Youre spot on
@alanbrown852710 ай бұрын
By his own admission never fully believe what Dylan says in interviews. He lets the music speak for itself.
@gordonbrooks38569 ай бұрын
Zactly
@dignity032710 ай бұрын
I think we have all felt this way at one time or another....so relateable
@dignity032710 ай бұрын
His son Jacob said that the songs on Blood on the Tracks "Are my parents talking."
@warrenhughes91110 ай бұрын
Great reaction again.. Keep Bob coming!!! Dylan is the G.O.A.T..not those sports guys!!
@olajohansson167810 ай бұрын
A gem from the divorce album. The twin work is You're a big girl now, also with naked pain. The live version from Hard Rain is emotionally brutal, actually hard to listen to if you've gone through similar scenarios.
@chrisbanks592510 ай бұрын
Nice reaction . . . beautiful song by Bob.
@edprzydatek839810 ай бұрын
Makes you want to have a good cry. Great reaction.
@steveullrich773710 ай бұрын
Great reaction to Bob's poignant and earnest lyrics from someone whose heart is broken for the love he lost but to whom he still feels for and still wants to hang on to some part of it. Love takes two hearts and as such cannot follow solely by what you may wish for.
@matthewzuckerman626710 ай бұрын
When you say "his first album, I think you're referring to his 2nd album - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. His first one is just called "Bob Dylan" and has only 2 songs written by him. The 2nd has a load of, as you say, heavy-hitters.
@Papabob195710 ай бұрын
What a great song from Dylan, I do hope you get deeper into this album, Blonde on Blonde is a masterpiece to
@NickTubeless4 ай бұрын
Beautiful, painful song by the grand master of story telling. That is one of the best male vocals I've ever heard, incredible singing, so emotional.
@gordonbrooks38569 ай бұрын
You are quickly learning how to LISTEN to Dylan. Approach his music emotionally. Resist the temptation to approach it cognitively. Finding meaning does not always require analysis.
@gilevin1009 ай бұрын
Great reaction to an amazing song...
@dyl-annfan69 ай бұрын
There is a live performance of this song by Bob Lakeland 1976 - he changed some of the lyrics (some are not very audible and have been transcribed ) it is just heart wrenching, it's on youtube
@user-ls9jj3ci5i10 ай бұрын
Simple twist of fate has to be next.
@lathedauphinot68209 ай бұрын
The whole album is open like this. Try “Simple Twist Of Fate” from the same album. “He woke up. The room was bare. He didn’t see her anywhere. He told himself he didn’t care, pushed the window open wide.”
@naturesounds-ib5dh10 ай бұрын
Title reminded me of another favorite tune from Canadian band April Wine "Say Hello", check it out
@philipdru92905 ай бұрын
Perhaps bob’s best song?
@davescurry699 ай бұрын
Alternate take from the version on the album, but it's just as stunning as the one on BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. One of my absolute favourite songs from The Bob, as I heard it for the first time when I was going through exactly what the lyrics conveyed. Love you reactions to Dylan man.
@alberto-os1bx7 ай бұрын
They say a poet is a naked person. Bob Dylan is a poet that incidentally grew as a singer and a musician.....but he is a poet first of any other thing.
@YeungSze10 ай бұрын
Another "divorce song" you may check is Marvin Gaye's "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You". The whole album of Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" arguably exhausts every emotions coming from a failed relationship: heartbreaking, regret, broken promises, loneiness, feeling fooled by the twist of fate, anger, self blaming, trying to find joy in sorrow....But you will find many of these complicated emotions in this single song.
@maggiebryan235510 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@jnagarya5198 ай бұрын
"Bob Dylan" was his first LP. "Freewheelin'" was his second LP.
@dianedarby44210 ай бұрын
This one gets me every time . . .
@richardweddle34088 ай бұрын
#ShawnSalvadori -- no matter what he said later in interviews, this song and this album are about personal experience. Dylan changes his explanations all the time in interviews. Trust the song. He tries some narrative and structural experiments in the writing but it's ABOUT him & Sara.
@blacksabs54619 ай бұрын
I'd love to see you do Dirge from the album before this one, it's just Bob on piano and Robbie Robertson on guitar and it's probably his most poignant and personal song, I mean just read the first verse: I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel I hate myself for lovin' you and I'm glad the curtain fell
@YeungSze10 ай бұрын
I'm not sure whether the tempo quietly speeds up as the song progress. The music at the beginning appears calm and easy, but towards the end it sounds like increasingly hurried and tangled up, conveys the feeling that he can't help but being disturbed as he "replays the past".
@IvorPresents7 ай бұрын
On the same album, intense anger,, Idiot Wind and, Blood on the Tracks, A plus, album, Storytelling genius in Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, could be a movie in the most condensed poetry,
@dilandilanjoao431011 күн бұрын
Hi there. We tend to forget that Dylan is a good piano player. He's probably playing organ on this one besides the acoustic guitar and vocals 😅take care
@ASFMitchelProductions9 ай бұрын
this song hits hard to me due to a bad break up
@johnthegreek58369 ай бұрын
If you want to hear a song that was written about Bob Dylan, listen to Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez
@laurenfelsberg64068 ай бұрын
One true love - Suze Rotolo
@mikemike23227 ай бұрын
Been Dylan fan for 60 years. Everything he says in interviews needs to be taken with a HUGE grain of salt. Blood on the Tracks, has alot of Dylan’s personal loss, anger, and heartbreak, as he and Sara were breaking up. The song Sara is about as biographical as Dylan ever got.
@hlawrencepowell10 ай бұрын
Girl From the North Country has a similar vibe. Not the version with Johnny Cash. It's not as hurting, but it leans that way.
@aaronhaupert30159 ай бұрын
Please do the live version of Bob's "Abandoned Love", not the 1985 Biograph version
@ASFMitchelProductions9 ай бұрын
You're a Big Girl Now in another. Blood on the Tracks is a great album
@godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor10 ай бұрын
Bob Dylan was his first album.
@ShawnSalvadori10 ай бұрын
Yeah, guess I meant his second. Thought 'Freewheelin' was his first, but I was wrong
@dustnthwind9 ай бұрын
might not be the greatest album ever written but its sure in the top 2
@michaelteret47634 ай бұрын
What a sad song.
@ASFMitchelProductions9 ай бұрын
most every line is ended on the down
@warrenhughes91110 ай бұрын
P s.check out Bob's ..Slow train coming album..Bob does some great singing.m
@hlawrencepowell10 ай бұрын
He also admits his guilt in causing the separation.
@Ben-sq6un10 ай бұрын
and Idiot Wind
@BernardHodgson3 ай бұрын
It's really not a 'man' song it's about a break up. We are really not the same are we. Breaking up is sad.
@tomschoening221010 ай бұрын
A finer song has never been written..
@kimn98029 ай бұрын
Probably his last truly great album. No fillers...
@alabamaisyourdaddy61379 ай бұрын
Is that a joke? Desire, Oh Mercy, Time out of Mind, Modern Times, Rough and Rowdy Ways? All these albums are critically acclaimed and several of them have placements in top 500 albums of all time lists.
@kimn98029 ай бұрын
@@alabamaisyourdaddy6137 All solid albums but not up with his greatest in my opinion. You're welcome to your opinion. So you think they're up there with Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan, Basement Tapes, The Free Wheelin', Highway 61, The Times They are..,Bringing it All...? You must be joking.
@alabamaisyourdaddy61379 ай бұрын
@@kimn9802 Time out of mind, Desire and rough and rowdy ways are definitely on the level of times they are a changing but not the electric trilogy or Blood On The Tracks. The point I am trying to make is that you are comparing Dylan to Dylan and to say that he had no truly great albums past blood on the tracks is laughable
@kimn98029 ай бұрын
@@alabamaisyourdaddy6137 My point is that calling someone's opinion laughable is laughable. Your opinion is just as valid as mine and vice versa. It's like asking someone what their favourite colour is then telling them they're wrong. As for the argument that critical acclaim means something is also laughable. Musical history is littered with critics slating albums on release then having to eat their words later...